The Picts were a people living in northern and eastern Scotland between circa 300 and circa 850. Until this day they have remained an enigmatic people in several ways. Nobody knows exactly where the Picts came from and why they ‘evaporated’ in the mists of history about 850. The Picts did not leave any written sources, and the rare remains of their language – mostly surviving in onomastic materials – have raised ongoing discussion about its nature. The Pictish heritage consists of relatively great numbers of incised stone slabs and crosses, a stone sarcophagus, a limited corpus of metalwork and some architectural remains. This is all that we still possess read more…